Aramis the Sick Lion Is Getting By on Elk Burgers in Texas

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Here’s a guy who probably doesn’t mind a little horse DNA in his hamburgers every now and then. Aramis, an African lion living at the In-Sync Exotics Wildlife Rescue Education Center in Wylie, Texas, hasn’t been feeling too well. “This African lion is very, very sick,” the local NBC affiliate explains. “All he wants to do is eat elk meat.” Problem is, of course, dude needed to take his pills and no one had any elk filet lying around. Or so it seemed: the local Twisted Root Burger Co., which also grills venison and boar burgers, had just gotten a 50-pound shipment yesterday morning, so now the center’s staff have been able to slip Aramis his meds by tucking them into the chop meat. “I think it’s awesome,” says restaurateur Jason Boso. “I mean a lion and me, we have a lot in common. We eat buffalo, and elk, and venison, and so I need to help my brother out.”